Archive | September, 2009

Cloud of Confusion

Peter Kretzman at CTO/CIO Persepectives points out a serious problem with tech journalism in his article on cloud computing.  Sometimes the message gets oversimplified. Mainstream media drifts into this oversimplification in part because they’re leery of delving into technical arcania (virtualization, scalable architectures, APIs) that many of their readers can’t relate to. Yet, there’s actually [...]

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Nomadic Network Performance

According to a post by Ann Bednarz’ on Network World, employers are beginning to understand that poor application performance can have an interesting impact on the bottom line. As more employees are working outside a central office, poor application performance impacts the productivity of branch offices and telecommuters. A study by Harris Interactive (commissioned by [...]

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Nostalgia

With the CA acquisition, we’re sort of cleaning out our closets here at NetQoS, and look what we found in the back underneath the Christmas decorations and the Bedazzler! NetQoS Nostalgia 2

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Lest ye think us Commies…

I wanted to make a clarification regarding a blog post we recently published, called “FCC Weighs In On Network Neutrality.”  In that post, we talked about the FCC plan for network neutrality policies and legislation, and quoted FCC chairman Julius Genachowski extensively when he explained his reasoning for those policies. What we did not make [...]

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Entrepreneurs on LastDay

Here’s an interesting question – What’ll happen to application performance if the Obama healthcare plan passes? I’m not just talking about the impact it would have on the networks of the medical industries, but across the entirety of the U.S. economy. Now, the Obama plan is both controversial and the coverage and interpretations are steeped [...]

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Whiteboard Series: How Virtualization Impacts Application Delivery

Virtualization is a good news/bad news technology. The good news is that you can consolidate your servers onto one piece of hardware, but the bad news is that you lose visibility into the overall network. Jim Metzler, of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, and Ben Erwin of NetQoS discuss how to preserve visibility into application delivery [...]

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FCC weighs in on Net Neutrality

The FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski presented a speech to the Brookings Institution, the centrist think tank this morning, supporting FCC intervention to preserve Net Neutrality. I’m going to quote a whole bunch from the speech, but you really should see it or read it yourself [PDF], as it’s interesting for those of us interested in [...]

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‘CA+N Do’ attitude

What people are saying about the CA/NetQoS Acquisition: “The value that NetQoS will bring to CA in terms of market leadership in NetFlow solutions as well as NetQoS’s broader capabilities for response time monitoring and packet-based monitoring is substantial…” -“Net Management Shake-up: CA Acquires NetQoS”, Network World “Network managers must now focus on how applications [...]

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TeleKazam!

WAN Optimization solutions – assuming that they work for the applications you need them to work for – are like magic. Consolidating data centers, from a relativistic standpoint, actually moves users further away, so to consolidate data centers, and lowering costs, WAN performance needs to be good enough for the remote users to do their [...]

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Spawnlabs’ “Slingbox for Xbox”

While we could continue to talk about the CA’s intention to acquire NetQoS, there are other stories out there that we’d like to cover.  For example, Spawn Labs just announced the “Spawn HD-720,” which is essentially like a Slingboxfor console video games. For those unfamiliar with the Slingbox, it’s a device designed to work with [...]

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Post-Buzz

Okay, now that we’re back from the luncheon and coming down off the acquisition announcement buzz, we at NetQoS (pending regulatory approval, a part of CA) actually have to do work.  Life continues as normal.  And it will continue as normal for some time – until the feds get back to us in about a [...]

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And I was worried I wouldn’t have anything to write about today…

Okay, you’ve probably heard the news by now if you follow our industry, but, pending regulatory approval, NetQoS is being acquired in a deal for $200M in cash, by CA Technologies. I just got back from a company-wide meeting and lunch, and even though a lot of stuff went over my head, (I’ve never had [...]

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